Nona Krastnikova

Sofia, Modena, Graz: Nona Krastnikova's training runs through three schools — Mila Dyulgerova at home, then Raina Kabaivanska in Modena in 2008 and 2009 on a scholarship from Kabaivanska's foundation, then the opera studio of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. She has worked in masterclasses with Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kiri Te Kanawa and Hartmut Höll. Prizes came in 2014, at the Mirabent i Magrans competition in Barcelona and the Boris Christoff in Sofia, and at the Elsa Respighi in Verona the year after. As a staff soloist of the State Opera Burgas she has sung Amelia, Leonora, Mimì, Tosca, Cio-Cio-San, Suor Angelica and Nedda, while her concert repertoire takes in Rossini's Petite messe solennelle and Stabat Mater and Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder. She teaches classical singing at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia, where she also took her doctorate. Her masterclass with Kiri Te Kanawa and Frederica von Stade fell in 2008 and those with Tomowa-Sintow in 2011, 2014 and 2015, while the Barcelona and Verona prizes were third prizes and the Crown of Tarnovo competition brought her its Grand Prix. Among her Burgas parts are the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira and Fiordiligi, and Micaela in Carmen. Since 2011 she has sung in the duo Kolazh with the pianist Maria Ruseva.